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Partners in Literacy
Arkansas Parent Training and Information Network/Arkansas State Improvement Grant1123 S. University, #225,
Little Rock, AR 72204
800.223.1330 501.614.7020
Fax 501.614.9082
Website adcpti.org
What is Parent Involvement?
“The participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities.”
NCLB Act 2002
Sec. 101 [32]
What is Literacy?
- The ability to speak, listen, read and write.
- The ability to locate, evaluate, use and communicate meaning using a wide range of resources including text, visual, audio and video sources.
What is Literacy?
What ALL Parents Can DO!
TALK with your child and ask your child questions
READ to your child and let your child read to you
Skill Teaching Strategy
Step 1. I DO (Parent demonstrates)Repeat as needed
Step 2. WE DO (Parent with Child)Repeat together until child understands what to do
Step 3. YOU DO (Child)Repeat many times until child can do it well.If needed, start again at step 1 or 2
Phonological Awareness
Definition
- The understanding that spoken language is made up of individual and separate sounds
Phonological awareness activities can involve work with rhymes, words, sentences, syllables, and phonemes.
Phonological Awareness Activities
1. Oral Rhyming (cat rat sat) Read poetry and other rhyming books. (Humpty Dumpty) When reading a familiar rhyme, stop before a rhyming word and ask your child to say the word.
2. Syllable awareness in spoken wordsClap parts of words. Start with your child’s name.
3. Phonemic awareness (an essential element) Individual sounds in spoken words is a part of phonological awareness.
Five Essential Elements of Literacy The BIG IDEAS
1. Phonemic Awareness
2. Phonics
3. Fluency
4. Vocabulary
5. Comprehension
Five Big Ideas of Literacy
Phonemic Awareness– The ability to notice, think
about, and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
– The ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
Phonemes
Phonemes are the smallest parts of spoken language that make a difference in the meanings of words.– For example, changing the first phoneme (or first
sound) in the word hat from /h/ to /b/ changes the word from hat to bat, and so changes the meaning of the word.
Phonemic Awareness
Children need to learn– The spoken word consists of individual sounds
or phonemes– How the sounds work:
1. segment (break apart) into sounds 2. blend (put back together) 3. manipulate (add, delete & substitute).
Instruction in phonemic awareness skills helps children learn to read and spell. They understand that letters and sounds are related in a predictable way.
Phonemic Awareness Activities
1. Isolation-Individual sounds in a word.
“What is the first sound in van?” /v/ 2. Categorization-Child recognizes the word in a set
of 2 to 4 words that has the “odd” or different beginning sound.
“Which word doesn’t belong? bus, bun, rug.” rug
3. Blending-Blend sounds into words.
“What word is /s/ /u/ /n/?“ sun
Phonemic Awareness Activities
4. Segmentation-Break words into separate sounds, say each sound as your child taps or counts it.
fish = /f/ /i/ /sh/ (3 sounds) 5. Addition-Make a new word by adding a phoneme.
“What word do you have if you add /s/ to the beginning of the word park?” (S PARK) SPARK
6. Substitution-Substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word.
“The word is BUG. Change /g/ to /n/. What’s the new word?” BUN
Five Big Ideas of Literacy
Phonics instruction (Alphabetic Principle) There is a predictable relationship between
phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (writing)
Knowledge of the Alphabetic Principle
contributes greatly to a child’s ability to read
words both in isolation and in connected text.
Phonics Activities
Practice saying the names and sounds of letters with your child.
Match pictures of familiar things with the letters representing the beginning, middle and ending sounds. (shout, shirt, shell)
Ask your child to sound out each syllable when he or she comes to an unfamiliar word, then put the syllables together to make the word. (sy lla ble = syllable)
sh
Five Big Ideas of Literacy
Fluency and Accuracy– The ability to read text accurately
and quickly; not hurried reading.Provides a bridge between word
recognition and comprehensionReaders who have not yet developed fluency read slowly, word by word. Their oral reading is choppy and labored.
Fluency Activities
Read with your child everyday, smoothly pointing to words as you read.
Read a story, poem or play to your child, with expression. Then ask him to read the same page out loud to you.
Ask your child to read familiar stories over and over. See if she can read the story more quickly and smoothly over time.
Five Big Ideas of Literacy
Vocabulary- Understanding what words mean by
themselves and in sentences.
Oral Vocabulary refers to words that we use in speaking or recognize in listening
Reading Vocabulary refers to words we recognize or use in print.
Vocabulary Activities
TALK with your child during everyday activities and include your child in a variety of activities .
Look through a book before reading a story and ask your child to use words to describe the pictures.
Use your child’s textbook and talk to him about the vocabulary/words being studied.
Make refrigerator magnet words.
Five Big Ideas of Literacy
Comprehension – Understanding what has been read.
Comprehension is the reason for reading!
If readers can read the words, but do not
understand what they are reading, they are not
really reading.
Comprehension
Students need to learn how to:
Understand and remember what they read
Relate their own knowledge or experience to text
Communicate with others about what they read
Use comprehension strategies
Comprehension Activities
While traveling, ask questions about landmarks, reasons people might live in certain areas, etc.
“Think out loud” to your child when you are doing things around the house.
Check out books from the library with your child. Read the book’s title, or look at the pictures, and ask what he or she thinks the book is about.
Ask your child to retell parts of a story
to you after reading together. Allow your child to read and
carry out favorite recipes.
DIBELS
Assistive Technology for Literacy Improve Functional Capabilities
Low Tech Mid Tech
Fat PencilBook stand Magnifier
Light
Tape Recorder and earphones
Computer and keyboard options Mouse options
Hi Tech
Resources for You
Your child’s teacher Parent Facilitators in every public school Parent Centers in every
public school Public Library
“Ideas to Build Your Child’s Reading Skills”
Literacy Activities for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension
Sight Words for Lower and Upper Elementary Levels
Download at http://arksped.k12.ar.us/
3 Levels of Brochures
Put Reading First Helping Your Child Learn
to Read
Parent Brochure for Preschool thru Grade 3 (English and Spanish)
Order booklet: 1.800.228.8813 or can download at
http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/k-3.html
A Child Becomes a Reader
Parent Booklet for
Kindergarten thru
Grade 3 OR
Birth through Preschool Order from
1.800.228.8813
or can download at
http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/k-3.html
Helping Your Child Become a Reader
Parent Booklet for Birth through age 6+
(English and Spanish)
DOWNLOAD ONLY: 1.877.433.7827 download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html
Resources for You Internet Websites
LiteracyCenter.net www.literacycenter.net On-line Early Childhood activities in English, Spanish,
German and French
Reading Rockets www.readingrockets.org Activities and tip sheets for pre-school through 3rd
grade in English and Spanish
Compact for Reading & School-Home Links http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/index.html
Printable activities for grades K-3rd (100 each) in
English and Spanish
Resources for You Internet Websites
The Arkansas Family Literacy Partnership www.accessarkansas.org/afl/about_us.html
Including AR Even Start Family Literacy. 4 In-depth videos.
• DIBELS Parent Brochure gives basic assessment information http://www.fcrr.org/assessment/PDFfiles/ParentBrochure.pdf
Special Education http://arksped.k12.ar.us IDEA changes and downloadable literacy brochures
● Special-Kids email http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Special-Kids Group email for Arkansas families who have children with special
needs. Parents helping parents.
Resources for You Internet Websites
Arkansas Literacy Intervention Matrix literacymatrix.com
Classroom lessons/interventions and possible modifications for the five essential areas of literacy for grades K - 4, 5 - 8, and 9 -12. Lessons are linked to Arkansas Frameworks and include activities for students in need of Tier I, II, III, IV and V level of support.
Resources for You Internet Websites
Family Center on Technology and Disability www.fctd.info
Arkansas State Improvement Grant: www.arstateimprovementgrant.com
Arkansas Disability Coalition (ADC) and PTI (AR Parent Training and Information Network)http://arkansaspti.org or adcpti.org A non-profit organization working with parents of children with disabilities to develop self-advocacy skills and improve communication between home and school.
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